Preview: Stoke City vs. Sunderland

Sunderland travel to Stoke City on Saturday as the in-form team in the Premier League.

The Black Cats are currently eighth in the table after four wins in their last six games.

In contrast, Stoke have managed to muster just the one victory in that time, but go into the match at the Britannia Stadium in ninth place.

Wes Brown has been ruled out for eight weeks for Sunderland with a knee injury, while Lee Cattermole, David Vaughan and Nicklas Bendtner are also sidelined. Fraizer Campbell is likely to start after scoring two goals in two games on his return from long-term injury.

Stoke boss Tony Pulis has no new injury worries ahead of the match.

Current form:

Stoke: DDWDLL Sunderland: DWWLWW

Possible lineups:

Stoke: Sorensen; Huth, Shawcross, Wilkinson, Wilson; Pennant, Whitehead, Palacios, Etherington; Crouch, Walters

Sunderland: Mignolet; Bardsley, Turner, O'Shea, Richardson; Larsson, Gardner, Colback, Sessegnon; Campbell, Wickham

Sports Mole says: 1-1